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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Making progress',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/07/27.jpg" alt="Cones and other coniferous debris" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="480"/>
<section id="diet">
	<h2>Dietary intake</h2>
	<p>
		For breakfast, I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
		For each lunch and dinner, I had a slice of muffuletta.
		I also had some of those dried cherries.
	</p>
	<p>
		It seems the cherries have added sugar.
		I&apos;m not specifically <strong>*avoiding*</strong> added sugar, but that&apos;s still more calories, so it&apos;s disappointing.
		Add that to the fact that I&apos;m not even enjoying these cherries, and am just using them as my main snack so I can finish them off and be done with them, and it hardly seems worth it.
		I made the mistake of opening them though, so I can&apos;t really give them away to someone now.
		They were actually given to me by someone that had no use for them.
		They had the right idea.
		I should have given them away too, or else, not taken them to begin with.
	</p>
	<p>
		At work, the head manager caught one of my dizzy spells.
		I don&apos;t know if I&apos;ve mentioned them here in my journal or not, but I&apos;ve been getting periodic dizzy spells, mostly at work.
		Usually I recover before anyone sees, but the boss was right there.
		Anyway, their guess was that I needed to eat more.
		Huh.
		It could be that I&apos;ve been taking my dieting a bit too far.
		I&apos;m going to try loosening up on myself as far as how much I allow myself to eat.
		I didn&apos;t <strong>*feel*</strong> hungry at work, but I guess I did feel a bit hungry before I left, and maybe because I was busy working, I subconsciously blocked out the hunger or something.
		But anyway, my goal isn&apos;t starvation.
		I also need to be careful not to become anorexic or something.
		I mean, right now, I&apos;m veritably fat.
		At this point, I do need to shed some girth.
		But I hear it&apos;s so easy to get sucked into an eating disorder.
		I can&apos;t allow me to starve myself, and potentially get caught in a rut where I think I&apos;m fat even long after I&apos;ve ceased to be and just keep starving myself.
		That&apos;d be no good.
		So yeah.
		I think I&apos;m going to eat a bit more.
		I think that&apos;d be the best idea.
	</p>
	<p>
		I also bought a new scale after work, so I can better record my eating again.
		This time, it&apos;s a mechanical scale.
		I prefer the digital ones, but my digital one has locked up on me and won&apos;t register anything any more.
		I don&apos;t think the mechanical ones are as prone to doing that.
		It might hold out better than the digital one.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You make a good point about being able to add whatever tags you need to $a[XML].
			However, it&apos;s worth noting that applications using $a[XML] still need to know what those tags are for you to use them!
			Otherwise, using them won&apos;t give you the results you want.
			So for example, in the Android layout $a[XML], you&apos;re still restricted to using the set of tags that Android actually knows how to use in the context of defining layouts.
			Like you said though, you can break down layouts into multiple components and include them as necessary.
			That prevents repetition in the code so you don&apos;t have to worry about updates to one part not reflecting in another part.
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;m not sure where you were going with $a[XML] databases or $a[XSL] though.
			What do those have to do with Android application layouts?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I also posted again about the &quot;textures&quot;:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./coursework/CS4406/demo~_again~_not_a_texture.png" alt="These images aren&apos;t textures!" class="framed-centred-image" width="600" height="600"/>
		<p>
			If I don&apos;t get a response soon, I&apos;m going to have to assume that using my modified textures is alright.
			It&apos;s the only way to make the rendering come out even somewhat decent, and I can&apos;t put off working on the assignment too much longer.
		</p>
		<p>
			Anyway, I&apos;ve cleaned up the moon image for another demonstration.
			It took much less time this time, as I didn&apos;t have to first try out several other methods that ended up without good results like I did for the earth image.
			I won&apos;t go into detail like before - just see my previous post - but as you can see here, the moon &quot;texture&quot; is just as bad as the earth &quot;texture&quot;.
			As before, the original image that we were told to use is up top, the cleaned and stretched version in on the left, and the cleaned/stretched version that is also mirrored is on the right.
		</p>
		<p>
			It&apos;s worth noting that the moon image has less lighting issues, so mirroring the immage hides the seam much better than it did on the earth image demonstration.
			It&apos;s not great, but it&apos;s reasonable.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest</h2>
	<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_3.0/minetest.net./weblog/2019/07/27.png" alt="ROAD CLOSED" class="framed-centred-image" width="1024" height="600"/>
	<p>
		I finally started working on the new sandstone-inspired node for the new Building Up From Zero setup.
		After building the second texture for it, with the first being the recycled texture from the old sandstone-inspired node, I realised I don&apos;t even have a name for this node yet.
		I didn&apos;t know what to save the file as!
		I&apos;ve given it a dummy name for now, but I need to come up with a name before I do anything else with that mod.
	</p>
	<p>
		I had six gravel nodes blocking the path on each end where the path cuts off.
		I&apos;ve now replaced them with pine needles.
		It doesn&apos;t look quite as nice, but either way, gravel, sandstone (only regular sandstone), and leaves (all types) are scaffolding, the way I use them.
		I only put them place I don&apos;t intend to leave them forever.
		With my new strategy of mining gravel in my sleep, I&apos;m not going to have much - if any - gravel left over when I leave this place.
		There&apos;s no need to tie any of it up in infrastructure such as temporary road end caps.
		I don&apos;t think I&apos;m going to build that sand and gravel bank I was planning after all.
		I might still build some sort of seed bank though.
		If not, I still want to separate out my full stacks of seeds, saplings, spores, and leaves into some secondary storage area in my builds.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="transition">
	<h2>Transitioning update</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve finally bought a home hair-removal $a[laser] online.
		It&apos;s about time I move forward and make further progress in my transition, and it seems that the vocal lessons aren&apos;t going to happen any time soon.
		The $a[laser] is set to arrive by the sixth of next month.
		The thing was expensive, but only about as expensive as a single visit to the hair-removal specialist, so this&apos;ll definitely save me money over going in and having this professionally done.
	</p>
	<p>
		A week or two ago, I noticed that my hair looks nice these days.
		It&apos;s not as long as I&apos;d like it to be, but it still looks feminine enough to wear down.
		It&apos;s been over two years since I&apos;ve had a hair cut, and human scalp hair only grows for two to six years before it dies, falls out, and it replaced by new hair.
		If I&apos;m closer to the two-year cycle side of things, this is the hair length I can expect to keep.
		But there&apos;s a chance I&apos;ll be able to grow it out longer, too.
	</p>
	<p>
		My handwriting has become substantially nicer.
		My initial goal had been to write in a more-feminine way by making my letters more curvy and loopy, but this style just looks better in genera, too.
		It hides the imperfections of my lettering in the flow of the lines.
	</p>
	<p>
		When I have time, I should look into other things I need to work on, such as word choice and how to walk in a more-feminine way.
	</p>
</section>
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